what bannon did for trump was to take trump's impulses which trump developed on his own about free tradeand give it a kind of respectable intellectual framework. bannon used to say to trump, you know, you aren't a joke, you are part of a global populist uprising that we see sweeping across you're and great britain. do you remember in the campaign when trump was behind in the polls, who was ahead of him. niger. what did trump say he said we're going to be brexit. >> rose: it is to rise the forces of populism and nationalism. >> who is whispering in his ear telling him all that. >> rose: bannon. >> yes. >> rose: because bannon likes what had in brexit. >> he thinks he is in part responsible for brexit. one of the things -- bannon. one of the things bannon did at breitbart following the model of rene who is this tradition es who believes the path back to enlightenment to convert small pockets of people. what we consider today is thought leaders. bannon took that modeling started a breathe -- breathe parted in texas and los angeles and in rome to influence the vatican and started a breitbart

his biography of donald trump, "the making of donald trump." when we come back, the voting commission has its first meeting yesterday. donald trump addresses them. we will get the latest. then we will look at russia and the donald trump money trail. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "rebel woman" by sena dagadu. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: the first meeting of a new presidential election commission was held wednesday in the face of weeks of controversy, seven lawsuits, and new calls for the resignation of its vice-chairman, kansas secretary of state kris kobach. president trump convened the presidential advisory commission on election integrity to look into his allegations of voter fraud during the 2016 presidential election. pres. trump: voter fraud occurs, it cancels out the vote of a lawful citizen and undermines democracy. can't let that happen. any form of illegal or fraudulent voting, whether by , andtizens or the deceased any form of voter suppression

that is donald trump jr.. donald trump jr.d nothing came of the meeting because the russian woman he met with wanted to talk about adoption instead of destroying hillary clinton's campaign. that story will probably work for donald trump jr.. as the investigation proceeds because this is not a donald trump jr. story. meaning he is not the person in the most trouble in this story. donald trump jr. is now serving as a very convenient heat shield for his brother-in-law, jared kushner, who was also in that meeting, and was included on the e-mails entitled russia, clinton, private and confidential. the e-mails that set up that meeting. >> donald jr might face some legal liability for soliciting something of value to a federal campaign from a foreign citizen. that is against the law. but it is not clear that law could be applied to this kind of meeting. jared kushner is facing a much more serious criminal liability as a result of simply having received that e-mail. that alone. the e-mail. that is a serious criminal issue. for jared k

he is very similar to trump.got his company to license a show and then remove the host so he could host the show. they're very similar. who better to host the show than someone like trump? >> it does seem what donald trump is doing is he is amassing a mini army of people who will go around the table and tell him how wonderful he is but also have that secondary element of looking tv the way donald trump expects a person to look on tv? >> sure. the good suit, the hair product, the wall street look. he is this titan of industry. and scaramucci tries to play that same kind of role. with the relentless sucking up vacuum. he is on fire with how much he lost donald trump. >> there is something about it that is a bit authoritarian. the way people around those leaders talk about it. but it is interesting. i want to turn back to sessions for a moment. one of the things we do see reported in the "washington post." an attempt to undermine bob mueller. to try to cast dispersions. one way they're doing it is by talking about,

in trump world, it is okay to contradict donald trump jr. anyway. >> you know, you have to be a very, very, very flexible lawyer to take on this kind of assignment. these guys have to be nimble, pliable, you know, live. you know how it is. >> thank you, rachel. really appreciate it. >> thank you, lawrence. >>> well, tonight we are going to begin with this breaking news from "the new york times" that you've heard reported by rachel maddow. here is the first paragraph of that story. before arranging a meeting with a kremlin-connected russian lawyer he believed would offer him compromising information about hillary clinton, donald trump jr. was informed in an e-mail that the material was part of a russian government effort to aid his father's candidacy according to three people with knowledge of the e-mail. the e-mail to the younger mr. trump was sent by rob goldstone, a publicist and former british tabloid reporter who helped broker the june 2016 meeting. joining us now, jill wine-banks, former watergate prosecutor, ron claim, former chief of

both president trump and you have said that the russian attorney that donald trump jr. with is not a russian government attorney. i'm wondering how do you know that? how can you say that given that it was said in the e-mails that she was, there has been reporting by "the times," and it even seems like the story that she is telling now is evolving. >> well, there is a -- you raise actually an interesting issue. i'm trying to figure out if she was a russian government prosecutor, how in the world did the secret service allow her into a meeting at that point that took place with campaign officials if she was actually a government operative? why would the secret service have allowed that? how did she overstay her visa? that's another question. >> i can tell you that jc miller from the campaign and others from the campaign that we had on the other night were making the argument that at that point it was sort of a busy, chaotic environment in trump tower, and people could get in. i found that hard to believe. >> it shouldn't be chaotic. yeah, i find that -- the secret service

a candy bar in the trump store at trump tower is $18.ea that donald trump can't have his neckties made in america and make a profit is absolutely absurd. this is bill is right. this is utter hypocrisy. steve is going off on all sorts of tangents about other issues. >> no, i'm not. >> you have to walk or talk or you have no moral authority authority. >> go ahead, steven. >> you talk about the big profits. when have you ever made a profit selling anything? this is what business is about. you have to provide the best product you can. >> i'm sorry, steve, i founded a successful company that makes a profit. >> right. >> well, look. >> i founded a successful company that makes a profit, steve. >> you never bought anything that was made abroad? >> nope. never did, not once. >> you never bought anything that was made abroad. >> never. >> you never made anything made in mexico or china or taiwan? i find that a little bit hard to believe actually. >> let me just interject another point. david k. johnson might be able to expound on this more. donal

trump goldstone tells trump junior. i can also send this information to your father via rhona, but it is ultra sense tough so wanted to send it to you first. donald trump jr. clearly seems to welcome the offer telling goldstone if it's what you say, i love it, especially later in the summer. now this evening, donald trump jr. is speaking ot about those e-mails and the meet with the russian lawyer saying he would have done things differently. let's take a listen to some of his interview on fox news that aired just a few minutes ago. >> do you tell your father anything about this? >> it was such a nothing -- there was nothing to tell. i wouldn't have even remembered it until you start scouring through this stuff. it was just a waste of 20 minutes, which was a shame. >> did you ever meet with any other person from russia that you know of? >> i've probably met with other people from russia. >> not in the context of actual -- a formalized meeting or anything like that. because, why would i? in the grand scheme of things, how

campaign adviser donald trump jr add meeting at trump tower in new york on a day that donald trump was there. with a russian lawyer connected to the kremlin. also in that same meeting which was first reported by the "new york times" were the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, now white house adviser, and paul manafort. then the campaign chairman. that meeting arranged for june 9, 2016 directly contradicts what trump jr told the times in march. did i meet with people that are russian? i'm sure i did. but none of that were set up. none that i can think of at the moment and certainly none that i was representing the campaign in any way, shape or form. after the "new york times" confronted trump jr about the meeting he then explained its purpose was benign. that they were merely discussing a program for american families to adopt russian children, which was suspended a few years prior. within hours that explanation was revealed to be at absolute very least woefully incomplete. trump jr's real reason for meeting with the lawyer according to five different advisers to the white house who

so imagine trump. he could have been sitting down negotiating with xi jinping today and say let me introduce you to my 11 trading partners in a free trade zone all around your border that we control 40% of the economy. imagine the leverage we have. instead he threw it out. the first day in office. i'm sure without reading it, having been properly briefed on it, knowing anything about it. and now we're trying to basically negotiate with the chinese on korea and on trade without that leverage. people don't understand, anderson, our getting out of tpp was our brexit. it was our brexit from the asian free trade zone. it will have vast consequences. more geopolitical than geoeconomic. >> thomas friedman, it's good to talk to you. thank you. >> you too. revelation that he met last year with a russian lawyer promising dirt on hillary clinton. there's that and there's donald trump jr.'s changing story about it. there's also repercussions. more on all of it now from our jeff zeleny. >> reporter: the white house

eric trump denied the claim. donald trump jr. in 2008 touted the ties to russia at a real estate conference. saying russians make up a disproportionate cross-section of our assets. saying we see a lot of money pouring in from russia. then there's jared kushner. the postreports mueller is investigating jared kushner's finances. as kushner's company was seeking financing for its troubled $1.8 billion purchase of an office building at 666 fifth ach in new york. "the wall street journal" says they're investing possible money laundering by p.m. who's reportedly in debt to prokremlin interests for $17 million before he joined president trump's campaign. >> the ongoing probe by mueller says he's finding the strike zone, and is continuing to gather documents relevant to his choirry. and those include records and business dealings close to the trump campaign. we don't know what's happening in mueller's investigation but according to to a new report in bloomburg, which is based on an unnamed report, and has not been confirmed. mueller expa

president donald trump. also what we're seeing here as well -- there is a divide between what the u.s. and south korea want in their policy with north korea and how to deal with the country. and then what china and russia wants. certainly this is something that is being played out here in south korea. media is focusing quite heavily on this perceive d divide betwen the two sides, them versus us, how to deal with north korea. china and russia asking that there is a halt in the u.s.-south korea military drills in return for a halt or freezing in north korea's nuclear weapons program. it's been rejected in the past. china has suggested this in the past. but it is a divide that is concerning some here in south korea. hannah? >> paula hancocks, thank you very much. in seoul, south korea. >>> well, moscow is urging washington to end its joint military drills that it conducts with south korea. matthew chance is with us now live from the russian capital, moscow. the u.s. and russia at loggerheads again over what to

earlier this week, we saw evidence that the trump administration and the trump family eagerly intended to collude with russia, a hostile foreign-policy to influence an american election. today we learned a foreign russian agent was also present at the trump meeting. members of congress take a sacred of, i do solemnly swear, and that is to uphold the constitution of the united states with what our responsibility is. the president also takes that both. speaker ryan has avoided any response by the republicans, any positive action to uphold the constitution of the united states. in terms of our electoral system, our democracy. earlier this week, i called upon him to give us a vote on this independent commission. outside independent commission to investigate the ties to russia. what do the russians have politically or financially and any personally on donald trump? that he fonds over putin, questions sanctions, is reckless when it comes to article five of nato, the list goes on and on. people have a right to know. maybe it will clear the air. maybe it won't. we know one thing for sure, we h

you covered president trump, then candidate trump.his is the way he talks, but painting a rosy picture heading into the meeting. >> reporter: that is the way he talks. look, i don't think we should be surprised to see it was a cordial meeting. it was a positive greeting. this is the first time he and russian president, vladimir putin are meeting face-to-face. it's the first chance they have to size each other up. president trump has hardly made a secret he wants to improve u.s. relations with russia. maybe there's a dip that goes with the carrot. maybe we'll get a sense of that in the readout. it should be no secret or surprise trump wants to build and improve upon. >> matthew chance, one of the things vladimir putin said beyond it was good to meet president trump personally, clearing up the previous claims from donald trump as a candidate, he met vladimir putin, he backed off. president putin made clear it was the first time they met spers personally. he was discussing the problem spots around the world. is that the goal of president

league by trump.odel is to build his name —— directly. business model is to build his name -- directly. there is a figure from last yea r‘s -- directly. there is a figure from last year's c n n money. they looked into the whole trump organisation and that is the figure they came up with. what are you saying, that he doesn't build... he leases brand trump. to say there is 34,000 employees under the trump brand. ——i am just saying. is he more than a brand in that he stands for policies, very clear policies and he ta ps policies, very clear policies and he taps into the zeitgeist when he says, look, i'm not happy about globalisation. he said, in particular about globalisation in june last year, it makes that elite very wealthy that has left millions of our workers with nothing but poverty and heartache. he is not the only political figure poverty and heartache. he is not the only politicalfigure on poverty and heartache. he is not the only political figure on the right thatis only political figure on the

this is president donald trump's lawyer, not trump, jr.'s lawyer. he's in big trouble and has to decide whether he wants his client, the president, to go down with his son, or whether he wants to align his interests with donald trump. i don't think that's in the best interest of the president. >> and you can indict a president's son. >> you absolutely can. you have to wait until he's impeached and then he can be indicted if there's probable cause of a crime, but he could be indicted tomorrow. >> let me go back to susan on. this i thought it was illegal to take a contribution of any sort in kind of in cash from a foreigner, someone from another country or certainly representing another government. how can this guy say we all agree this was legal. i don't think bob mueller is in on that agreement at all. >> that's true. in fact, we don't know everything that's happened. and we also don't know what the legalities may be. it's not up to jay. it will be in the end up to bob mueller and his investigators. so this is at least premature. it's also an intere

trump. they are beginning an effort to hold hearings on obstruction of justice and russian interference in our election. that's your committee. do you support this effort? >> well, there is certainly -- no. there certainly ought to be hearings by the judiciary committee in the house as the one in the senate has announced they will do. we have jurisdiction over obstruction of justice. we have jurisdiction over the conduct of the justice department in the lawsuit. we have jurisdiction over all this. we ought to be investigating. >> so you're saying yes to the hearing but no to articles of impoai impeachment. >> it's too early. we have a long way to go in investigation. it may lead there, but who knows. i'm certainly not going to support that now. but i am going to support a strict investigation of everything because it is a direct threat to our democracy. >> all right. congressman, good to talk to you. i appreciate your time. >> president trump leaves behind a white house in disarray. is there

trump. government. donald trump jr.' quote, if it's what you say, i love it, especially later in the summer. in other words, closer to the election. and now this tonight. >> do you tell your father anything about this? >> no it was such a nothing there was nothing to tell. >> so let me ask everybody at home this. why should you -- why should any of us believe that? this interview is like his fifth attempt to defend the indefensible. don junior is the latest person to mislead you about the russian dealings. michael flynn, attorney jeff sessions, his own son-in-law and now the closest yet, his name sake, donald trump jr. so no one knows exactly where this investigation's going to end up, what it's going to uncover. the president and his supporters have said time and time again this is fake news, it's a witch hunt. please, it's time to end that garbage. read the e-mails

donald trump, donald trump jr., and the ago lair offs. i had actually interviewed months ago rob goldstone because i wanted to understand what went on in moscow 2013 when trump went there. and he laid out that there was much more to the visit than people sort of understood. there was a formal letter of intent signed between the trump organization and the agilarovs to build a trump tower in moscow. donald trump jr. was put in charge of that project. ivanka trump flies over to moscow in february 2014 to scout sites for the trump tower. then what happens? russia invades -- annexes crimea, intervenes in ukraine. the us and eu impose sanctions, and the sanctions tank the ruble. and basically undermine the whole project. it's no longer economically feasible. so that's a significant point when we look at trump's interest in lifting sanctions. it may have been a factor in his viewpoint of this. but when you look at the e-mails and you see that it's the agilarovs who are very close to putin, who are providing this -- offering this intelligence to

trump."at's the offer, dirt on hockey gathered by a foreign adversary to help him become president. trump's junior reply, if it's what you say i love it especially later in the summer and from there trump junior and gold stone go on to set up a meeting with what he calls the russian government attorney who is flying over from moscow. then in the next e-mail, the russia attorney. several more e-mails follow before donald trump looping in paul manafort and jared kushner. this is the plain and simple language from e-mails released by donald trump jr. himself as part of his evolving explanation of this meeting which "the new york times" first revealed on saturday. for starters they expose his prior accounts of the meeting as untrue. he wasn't as he first said motivated to meet this woman out of concern for orphans. he certainly did contrary to how he described it on saturday discuss politics. the woman was not offered as some random an dwants of a friend as he first suggested but described as a r

trump. calling for mass protests against him. but are her radical policies a panacea for the current ills in the united states? naomi klein, welcome to hardtalk. happy to be here. you have just written a new book, no is not enough. is it anything more than just another liberal critique of donald trump? what i am trying to do with the book is really focus less on donald trump the personality, the extremist, the shock machine who has everybody gasping with his tweets and put him into the context really off the past a0 years of economic history and how we arrived here. and he makes sense in this culture where we have had the triumph of lifestyle brands where we have humans merging with corporations, we worship wealth, consumption is a way of life. we have a dominance—based logic in our economy at every level so i think trump makes sense and i want to put him in context. and in what way does he epitomise or that the personification of the merger of humans and corporations because you say, he has

trump, jr. someone of that magnitude and that level, you would have to have some kind of explanations as to why you would be meeting. and again, at that time, this was around a very important time. the president -- well now president trump, but candidate trump at that time early on has major security and secret service there so if you were coming to that building there was a reason to come to that building. that reason according to this news article, this breaking news, that the reason was to give information about the clinton campaign so he had a reason. it makes sense. it sm what falls into place and understanding as to why there was a meeting. right now it's alleged. >> i did hear the conversation on getting into the trump tower, what did you have to do, show id, this was before he game the nominee. each time i one i had to show identification at the elevator to get up to the floor at least where the trump family. >> and explain. >> and explain why you're here. i'm from cnn i'm doing an inter

the world is in chaos and trump is a kind of symbol of that. amy: can you talk about trump's first?to go to poland before going to the g20 where we understand that the german chancellor angela merkel will be emphasizing the issue of climate change, which donald trump rejects? is absolutely right. the reason he decided to go to poland as he thought the right-wing populist government in poland was more likely to be supportive. we know they bust in protesters there to cheer him on. one thing that trump was to do because he believes in this kind of zero-sum economic gain where asrica must make its gains everyone else's expense, one thing you want to do is weaken the competitive trade. one of those being europe and one of those being china. he sees those as america's big competitors. so by originally supporting the brexit referendum in britain and now by going to poland, he is trying to drive a wedge and stoke up nationalisms in europe and to weaken europe. he thinks it is the best way the united states can make economic gains. that is why he went to poland. as heo knows that as soon arr

donald trump jr. does it point to collusion with the russian government? and who is the lawyer allegedly claiming to have dirt on hillary clinton? >>> plus, donald trump and chelsea clinton dueling on twitter over ivanka. investigators want donald trump jr., the top democrat wants answers from the president's son. senator mark warner calling donald trump jr.'s meeting with the russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign the first, quote, clear evidence that members of the trump campaign met with russians with the specific goal of hurting hillary clinton's campaign. now, donald trump jr. was joined by paul manafort who was then trump's campaign manager and jared kushner and top adviser in that meeting. >> it's also a continuing pattern that we've seen since the election of trump campaign and trump administration officials who have conveniently forgotten meetings with russians only when they are then presented with evidence they have to recant and acknowledge those kinds of meetings. >> so what pattern is w

you have donald trump jr.a substantial portion of our assets are coming from russia, you have trump selling lots and lots of real estate, condos to russians, over and over again. have you in your reporting all these decades on donald trump seen a pattern of him making, doing this much business with anyone else or are russians sort of uniquely positioned to constantly feed him money? >> donald is deeply involved with the russians and to some extent the communist chinese banks that he owns money through, through various business entities, because american banks won't lend money to him. remember, donald said after the fact, i borrowed money knowing i wouldn't have to pay it back. well, try that with your banker and see if you can get a loan. and the russians have exploited this. they clearly think of him as an asset, and if you look at what's just leaked that was in the earlier segments being discussed, how convenient, when you're trying to find a way to get rid of your prosecuteor, in trump's case, robert muelle

they still do whatever they want in syria, so trump campaigned on putin likes trump, trump will use thatetter relationship. why isn't this meeting just an extension of that effort? >> you know, chris, i'm not sure that the american people, the average american, the majority of americans support a weak policy towards russia. we need to be effective in the world. we're the global leader and be need to stand up for nato. president trump has to be careful here. the issue that he is chosen as president and presidential candidate to make a single policy issue, i'll make a better relationship with russia, he's not playing it correctly. putin has been 18 years in this game. he's very tough minded and very cynical. the way i think we've dealt successfully with him in the past, president clinton, president george w. bush and president obama, is you have to draw the line. you have to show putin where he can't go and president trump has not done that. i think you're seeing a rebellion by senior republicans in the senate who want this sanction bill to pass. they voted 97-2 to pass it. the trump admin

had donald trump jr.lished these e-mails that he publish today alone, in the absence of your reporting that apparently pushed him to do it, i think a lot of people might have felt like it was sort of too good to be true from an investigations perspective, in terms of links between the campaign and russia during the campaign, but your reporting on what happened here not only pushed him to do this, can you tell us if your reporting here comports with what he published, that you uncovered similar information to what he published? >> yes. what happened was this morning, we had a story prepared that basically documented a lot of the e-mails in question that we'd been writing about in previous stories. and we notified the white house and we notified donald trump jr.'s lawyer that we were preparing to go with a story very soon, by late morning, and we were asking for comment. they asked for a little bit more time and we gave a little bit more time, but then, at around 11:00, when we were preparing to publish our

president trump has taken a very different look at that. you couldn't think of two more opposite figures in temperament, personality and outlook on life than president trump and president obama. president obama was reserved, not a people person, not given to bombastic statements, sometimes cautious to a fault. sometimes his own staff would grow frustrated by the lengthy policy reviews before he finally came to a decision, but he was a very, you know, controlled, disciplined figure. president trump is the opposite. he's impulse, unrestrained, there are no unfiltered thoughts. he sun managed by his staff, something his supporters think is a good thing, and he has decided to basically govern in the way he ran his reality television show. it's basically a very much ad hoc kind of sometimes unprecedented sort of, you know, type of presidency. >> glasser: yeah, but barack obama, just to offer the counterpoint, came into office also determined to undo george w. bush's legacy and talked a lot about restoring america's standing in the world. obama c

and that is what donald trump jr. was expecting, according to those e-mails. >> and welcoming. >> i love it. we will never forget that quote. >>> chris snyder outfront for us at the white house. jessica, what is the white house saying about this -- these ever evolving details of this meeting? >> reporter: nothing just yet, kate. the president himself staying silent. he said nothing aboard air force one, has said nothing now that he's arrived in nurng at his golf club and also hasn't said anything of these new details on twitter. his son has not been eager to issue a subsequent statement as he was this past weekend when he issued one statement on saturday, one on sunday and released those e-mails and did an interview on tuesday. donald trump jr. saying nothing tonight. also his lawyer who said earlier this week that all of this was much adieu about something, cnn has reached out to that lawyer. he has not gotten back to us. but one person who is speaking about this is michael caputo. he actually met with the house inte

donald trump jr. changes his story about a 2016 campaign meeting, now admitting he met with a russian lawyer hoping for information on hillary clinton. >>> impenetrable or not? president trump changes his story about working with russia to form an impenetrabl erke cyb security unit. he dropped the subject as soon as he brought it up. >>> false accusations of classified information. >>> world leaders let kim jong-un's long-range missile test pass without any apparent consequences. are they giving north korea a green light? >>> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >>> breaking news. the vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee, senator mark warner, said the president has clear evidence that the trump campaign saw damaging information about hillary clinton from a possible foreign agent. that comes as donald trump jr. changed his story about a meeting during the campaign, admitting he met a russian lawyer hoping to collect information on hillary clinton. also attending were then-campa

trump called it the trump's show in the '80s.n he's creating his celebrities by turning his extramarital affairs into a life action soap opera. he said the show is trump and it sold out everywhere. he understood the power of distractions and now we got the trump show and trump is directing some of it. some of it is imposed on him and being directed by others. all of it is reality of tv show and who's going to be voted out of the administration next. comey or steve abandon or trump himself will be voted out through impeachment. you cannot compete with that. that's the argue. this is so dramatic that how could we possibly spend ten minutes really unpacking the influence of goldman sachs on the administration and what his tax policy is going to mean todt to daily life. that requires qualifications. it does require digging in and that was not done during the election in terms of explaining the stakes. it is no t beit being done and g as it is reality tv show. trump knows that game and he knows it better than anybody else. >> that's w

trump. she actually got it, and she sank manafort's position. would you start prosecuting people from the dnc for having done that in january? >> that's a false equivalent. that's not quite the same as russia, who is about to be med 88ing or has been meddling into the election. and who the intelligence community would later show they wanted to sway the election in trump's favor. >> that's certainly our assumption. and let's face it, from an optics viewpoint that is different. from the viewpoint of law and what bob mueller has to prove -- i feel sorry for him. he has to prove this is different from solicitation. i'm not sure that's going to be easy to do. >> the law and politics, sometimes not always on the same page. thank you very much. appreciate your time, sir. thanks for coming in. >> most relations on capitol hill refuse to break ranks with trump on the russia investigation until now. this time, it's different. we'll head to the capital for a live report. and more breaking news moments

the fact the trump campaign paid 50 grand to trump junior's attorney? i'm not involved in the discussions with the lawyers on who paid what entity and i don't represent donald trump junior. in a situation like this, this is not an unusual situation where the individual that's being questioned or subject to questioning, donald trump junior, retains counsel. involved in an incident that involved an e-mail campaign and when he was working, doing work for the campaign. that is not an unusual scenario or set up at all. i don't know the final determination of who is paying what bills to whom. i think that's still in process. >> i think a lot of people who give money to the trump campaign will be surprised they are paying for the legal bills for donald trump junior. thank you so much for your time. we appreciate it. >> thanks, jake. appreciate it. >> donald trump junior says he is happy to share what he knows with the senate committee investigating. will he be willing to testify publicly? that story is next. [car tires screech] [bell rings] when you switch to

donald trump jr.the invitation and asked paul manafort and jared kushner to be there as well. according to the "new york times," before that meeting happened, donald trump, jr., was told in an e-mail from this guy rob goldstone who he knew, told that there would be compromising information about hillary clinton offered in this meeting and he was informed explicitly in this e-mail according to the times, quote, that the material was part of a russian government effort to aid his father's candidacy. this e-mail message was described to "the new york times" by three people and according to the times, they have not published the e-mail, but they say the e-mail indicates that the source of this potentially damaging information on hillary clinton was the russian government. and then after that e-mail donald trump, jr., accepted the ini have ti ini have i ha-- the invitation he was there with jared kushner. as we were saying at the top of this hour, there have now been two major reports that there were appar

trump. trump responded, i love it.ys later, on june 7, donald trump previewed or teased an upcoming speech on clinton. promising to reveal damaging information. let's watch him. >> i am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week, and we're going to be discussing all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you're going to find it very informative and very, very interesting. >> two days later, trump jr., jared kushner and paul manafort sat down with the russian lawyer on the promise she would deliver russian sourced dirt on hillary clinton. three days later on, june 12, julian assange of wikileaks announced that he was in possession of e-mail relating to hillary clinton. on june 14th, the "washington post" first reported that russian intelligence breached the dnc. we know that now. then the first russian hacked dnc file was released on june 15th. and despite that kushner, manafort and donald trump jr. were told that they were helping their candidate. they said we believe it was th

so january 6, comey is that some of the other intelligence officials went to trump tower to brief trump on the russian meddling in the election. afterward, he pulled trump aside and told him about the dossier. this is collection of reports by a former british spy about information the russians may have on trump. blackmail information and business ties between trump associates and russia. what trump says is that in hindsight, looking back, he thought comey was trying to get leverage. as comey was maneuvering to get his job, it was a play for leverage what comey has testified about, if you talk to folks at the fbi, what they would say is that comey was trying to tell trump, look. there's this information out there about you. the media may be publishing it and we have it and you have a right, you should know about it. to put him on notice about it. that it was not trying to compromise the president. >> i have to talk about vladimir putin. i don't know how much of your interview talked about vladimir putin. a lot of trust, i guess. in the word of vladimir putin when he said he didn't interf

trump. and the big question was, were there any links? was there any collusion? of course, there was lots of back and forth on that, and that was something that was denied at every single step by the white house. by the vice president, by the president, consistent denials of that fact. and then it's not fake news. it's not cnn, it's not the "new york times," it's not the "washington post," anybody else the president has labeled fake news, it is his own son who said essentially i was looking forward to a meeting with a russian attorney who told me that they had incriminating information on my opponent. so in some ways, the question of whether there was a link now has been solved much to the destruction of the white house's credibility. now our job is to figure out what else is there? you know, was there further contact, was there further working together? does this rise to the level of a prosecutable crime? >> and congressman, speaking of more evidence, could there be more e-mails out there?

donald trump jr. reportedly told in an e-mail that the russian government was trying to help the trump campaign. this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. thanks so much for joining us. this is all according to "the new york times," which reports the e-mail was sent to trump jr. by the man who set up his meeting more than a year ago at trump tower with a russian lawyer. we're going to get straight to maggie haberman with "the new york times." she broke the story. joins us now via phone. maggie, just holding ahold of your reporting, reading some of it. so you have new reporting tonight about an e-mail donald trump received ahead of his june 2016 meeting with a russian lawyer. what can you tell us about that? >> so, look, there's a lot that we -- there's stuff we know and there are many things we don't know. what we do know right now, this i was a very much a group effort at the "times" by a lot of reporters, that don jr. in the course of being approached about a meeting on the woman, the lawyer, the russia

donald trump jr.aying his explanations, what are you thinking? >> what he said in that e-mail, if it's what you say it is, i love it. the question is what part did he not love or did he take the information and want to hold on to it, not give in saying that this was what he wanted. there are a lot of questions still about what's going on. but, there is a lot of smoke around here when it comes to these e-mails, and at issue -- and i'm going back to something david said. when you look at the support for donald trump, president donald trump right now, yes, his base is supporting him still but there is a little bias, some republicans on the hill that are looking at this askew. but tame you have rob there are people who are putting a lot of stock into this investigation, mueller. and if mueller sees the smoke and finds the fire, we'll wonder will things change. will there be people saying there is something serious, not just owner the democratic side by the republican side. and for both donald trump jr. an

trump. we are told top white house officials steve bannon and reince priebus were opposed to scaramucci's hiring as was spicer. >>> also breaking, no official confirmation yet from donald trump, jr. or paul manafort on whether they'll testify before the senate judiciary committee next week as asked. the panel set tonight as a deadline to hear from the president's son and his former campaign chairman, or face the threat of subpoenas. a third witness just responded to the committee. glenn simpson, the co-founder of the firm behind the russian dossier on mr. trump, is refusing to testify. and tonight cnn has learned that special counsel robert mueller has asked the white house to preserve all documents related to a 2016 meeting that included trump junior, manafort, a russian lawyer and five other people. a source who has seen the letter say the request for information is broad. it includes text messages, e-mails, as well as voice mails. this hour i'll discuss those stories and more with congres

the high command of the trump campaign meeting in trump tower at the same day that candidate trump was in the building as well last june. >> just in terms of the trip, president trump and president macron of france certainly made a big point today of emphasizing the relationship between our two countries. >> reporter: no doubt about it. they were definitely trying to emphasize, you know, the sources of agreement, the alignment between the two countries. and the large share of their private meeting, bilateral meeting was actually on counterterrorism and syria. there are two areas in which these two countries agree and france is a major ally of the u.s. yes, they've had many disagreements, particularly on climate change, on the -- some free trade agreements and immigration, certainly. but there was a heavy emphasize today with both of these new leaders and this is the youngest president in modern french history and the oldest president in u.s. history, you know, standing side by side, giving each other hugs and pats on the back, trying to make a new relationship known here. that continue

the trump campaign was run by one person, donald trump., he was the campaign manager, and he won the election from his cha rhyri and his direction. i'm saying the campaign was a campaign unlike any you've ever seen before. >> wouldn't that person know about the meetings? >> no, because it's not as if this campaign had the proper bureaucracy that looked like other campaigns with an org chart. when those three people went to this meeting, they were probably like 10% of the senior staff of the entire campaign at the time. and so i think for the russians to have colluded, i believe they would have had to have come, set up a leadership structure inside the campaign and created this grand conspiracy and then colluded with that group of people that wanted to talk back to them. >> it sounds like you're saying they were incompetent. you didn't answer his question about what you thought of the e-mail and the meeting. >> don, let me just jump in since he didn't answer. >> let him answer. he said he would. >> we'll see if he can get a second swing at

not only did donald trump jr. do something that was completely unamerican, he vie latd a federal election campaign act which says can you not solicit anything of value from a foreign national. and as a former prosecutor, i can tell you that a conspiracy charge of violate that act is very easy to prove. you don't even have to show that a crime was completed. you just have to show he took one step to try to complete the crime and he certainly did that. >> and so now, okay, if that is the case, do you expect what happened in that meeting to come under the mueller investigation or are you saying that this is a separate potential criminal offense that the justice department should be looking into? if that's the case, who could do it? it doesn't seem like jeff sessions is in a position to do it. >> under their instruction that's special counsel mueller was given, he has the right to investigate crimes arising from the trump-russia investigation. this was certainly one of those crimes he could absolutely investigate viol

president trump is en route to the u.s. following the g20 summit following a face-to-face meeting with russian president vladimir putin. they had a long list of issues to tackle. the two agreed on a cease-fire in southwest syria which takes effect in less than 24 hours. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson who attended the trump/putin meeting said, quote, this is our first indication of the u.s. and russia being able to work together in syria, end quote. and new details in mosul, iraq, where an isis stronghold is on the verge of collapse. cnn's nick paton walsh is reporting the iraqi army is increasingly confident they are nearing the, quote, final stage of the final stage of kicking isis out of the old city of mosul. iraqi television showing pictures of destruction with plumes of smoke rising over the city. a spokesman for the iraqi army saying iraqi forces are, quote, continuing their advance to liberate the remaining parts of the old city of mosul. only a few tens of meters are left for our troops to reach the western b